Nov. 10: What We’re Reading About the Cloud

It’s all about disruption today: Apple OS X becoming a more-appealing server OS, NoSQL being too disruptive for some IT types, ARM enabling high-performance server systems, Apache threatening to pull the plug on Java development, and IT vendors not getting that cloud computing is supposed to be disruptive.

NoSQL: Not Much, Anyway (From Dark Reading) I share this because I love stoking the NoSQL fire; the more we think about it, the better we understand what it is and isn’t. We saw similar discussion in the early days of the cloud, and look how that turned out.

Are IT Vendors Missing the Point of Cloud? (From CNET) You which vendors get the point that James addresses: VMware and Microsoft. The more they work Spring and Azure, respectively, into their offerings, the more they facilitate IT evolution.